This is the city: Los Angeles, California. I work here. I'm an ex-mayor. Los Angeles is a magnet for people from all over the world. Some of them run for public office. Inevitably some of them stray from the golden rule and rule for those that have the gold. That's when I go to work. My name is Yorty. I'm a dead pol.

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Thursday City Controller Laura Chick will release two audits covering the City's take home cars for elected officials, staff, general managers, LAFD and LAPD; the City's central fleet of passenger vehicles; and fuel usage. Does that include Michelle Delgadillo?

Following the drama and storming of the Bastille in San Fernando where voters recently outsted two longtime Council members Mayor and school board candidate Nury Perez Martinez (dang I keep doing that; Perez was someone I went to school with) was replaced in the Mayor's seat by Council Member Steven Veres. Martinez has asked for a two month leave of absence, presumedly for maternity leave, further adding additional distractions to her campaign to seek the School Board seat of Julie Korenstein, a part time position that pays nearly $200,000 per year.

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You completely missed this story. I think Becerra has done great things as a Congressman. However, this is the "real" reason why he couldn't go with Obama. Funny the LA Slimes failed to report on their list of people who helped the drug dealer was Villaraigosa too. Will this come out again when he campaigns for his re-election? We need to keep the topic out there so people know he helped a major drug dealer.

.....Becerra's got some baggage. Remember Carlos Vignali?President-elect Barack Obama's offer to make Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Los Angeles) the next U.S. trade representative makes him the second Cabinet-level candidate to have been involved in President Clinton's controversial 2001 commutation of a Los Angeles cocaine dealer's prison sentence. The other is Eric H. Holder Jr., whom Obama has nominated to be attorney general. The dealer, Carlos Vignali, was convicted in 1994 for his role in a drug ring that delivered more than 800 pounds of cocaine -- worth about $5 million at the time -- from Los Angeles to Minneapolis. He was released after serving less than half of his 14 1/2 -year sentence.

Becerra was one of a number of Southern California political leaders who urged Clinton to consider commuting Vignali's prison term in response to a campaign by Vignali's father, Horacio, a Los Angeles businessman and developer who contributed to Becerra's political campaigns. The senior Vignali also paid Hillary Rodham Clinton's brother, Hugh Rodham, $204,000 to lobby for his son's release.

Nury will be a mom at the time of the election. To be clear, at the meeting it was clear she asked for time off for maternity leave.

The real problem for San Fernando residents who don't agree with her politics is do we vote her to LAUSD and get her OUT of City politics forever, or do we have to wait another two years?

The bigger question is really if Louis is seriously running. Those of us who agree with his platform are really disappointed in his slow-to-grow campaign.

He could have gotten the ballots changed if he had worried about it when he first challenged Nury's designation--November 8th. Instead he waited over six weeks. When was the last time his website was updated? It's ok to have a grassroots campaign, but at least campaign a little.

Do you think I lied about the Nightline crew filiming the segment? Or did it get bumped by Osama's message last Wed., and I did you think it would run this week with the new President taking office? And Just Say Amy...WERE YOU NOT THERE TO SEE IT FOR YOURSELF!?!? YOU OF ALL PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW! ;)

Any questions as to whether it was Matt Dowd or the ABC Nightline crew..ask Tom LaBong, Eric Garcetti or any of the City Council members or staff who were there.

I don't think there is really anyone out there that questions whether it was filmed, or not...but how funny that you are so desperate to grasp at something, that you are claiming that I lied about the whole thing.

2:29: School board members make $75K if they don't have another job, a lower figure if they do. So Monica gets the max, Tamar the min. I'm not sure that makes sense, since they're all supposed to work equally but anyway it's not 200K. They often do it for the power and visibility toward getting another higher political gig. Like Huizar.

zooma dogg, I didn't say you lied about being videotaped. I said that you've been parading around saying that IT WILL AIR.

so far, you are wrong about it. no one said you were lying about being taped. but maybe they just felt that it wasn't up to snuff.

what concerns me is that you are quick to call people a loser for believing that the segment will never air. yet you complain about the way other candidates treat people, yet you're here everyday calling people childish names. grow up and maybe some people will listen to what you have to say. but childish namecalling will always turn them off.

and, yes, mayor sam was as arrogantly wrong about Obama closing Guantanamo. i believe he wrote that as recently as yesterday.

Pugliese needs to work if he wants to get elected. Gadflies hang out around schools or outside of grocery stores.

Pugliese you have been handed the school board seat by San Fernando and Nury herself. But seems like you don't have an inkling of how to maximize what you've been given.

Come on...she's a liar, she almost bankrupt the city she was the mayor of and then she's been stripped of her mayorship, and to top it off she isn't able to go door to door as the candidate because she's WAY pregnant....

Pugliese is working 6-10. Can't even get a decent meal at 10:10 here in the northeast SFV at that time. So he goes home after the forums and neighborhood council meetings and microwaves some turkey and cheese on whole wheat bread and calls it a day.

And YOU wanna see a REAL campaign?How about hitting that "contribute" button and following through?

If you haven't had the opportunity to meet him you are welcome to attend an upcoming meeting on

Monday, February 9, 20087:00-9:00 p.m.Hosted by the Sunland -Tujunga Neighborhood Council Education CommitteeNorth Valley City HallAddress: 7747 Foothill Blvd.x street WyngateTujunga,Ca(Wendy Gruels Field Office/Next to the Library)We will be discussing how Communities can support our local Schools and Students during these Economic times. For example:Donating of School SuppliesCommunity support for FundraisingGrant writingJoint Use AgreementsLocal Field TripsWhat Ideas will you bring to the Table?If you can't attend send him an email at his Website lausd2009.com

If you live in the LAUSD District 6Board Seat Boundary.(Get some Family and Friends together and he will come to youTime Permitting- there are only a few Schedule spots left).

LAUSD doesn't need another Politician. We need someone that is dedicated to Educating Students.

If Joe the Biden is a "gaffe machine" then Zuma Beeyotch has become "machine" of a different, useless kind.

It's like those televangelists that start out by trying to save your souls and then after awhile all they can preach on is how THEY are under attack and THEY need you money for THEIR ministry to survive ("The "hell" with YOUR soul, it's about ME now").

If ZD ever was an "advocate for the people" -- which is doubtful --his minor status as a mini-celebrity in City politics has declined into where he now spends ALL his time talking about himself, and HIS presence here and there and how HE is important (for what reason, no one knows), and "I'LL be here," "I'M going to be on TV."

When it becomes about ME, ME, ME, there is no "man of the people" left.

You are either detatched from reality (delusional) or are being purposefully deceitful like a shady city ballot measure.

Jealous Loser says, "his minor status as a mini-celebrity in City politics has declined into where he now spends ALL his time talking about himself."

EXCUSE ME...HAVE YOU SEEN ONE SINGLE ZUMA DOGG PUBLIC COMMENT AT CITY COUNCIL? CHECK THE CONTENT YOU EMOTIONALLY WEAK AND UNSTABLE LOSER. Go back an watch Friday's meeting...or any of the meetings over the past year. CHECK THE CONTENT vs WHAT YOU ARE CLAIMING.

I wish you have the guts to say that to me face to face you coward. And I don't care how tough you think you are...you are a pussy on the inside and could never confront me face to face.

So again, you better have facts to back up your bullshit, you vacant soul, living in fear, spineless coward.

Too funny. Zuma made a living (if you want to call it that) doing a cheap impression of a cross between Al Jolson and Vanilla Ice while begging for money at Venice. Now this stinky mutt has the nerve to call someone else a loser hahaha